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Life-Span Human Development (with InfoTrac)
Carol K. Sigelman, Elizabeth A. Rider
Edition: 4
Retail Price (not our price): $105.95
ISBN: 0534553508
ISBN-13: 9780534553500
Publication Date: 2002-07-17
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 640


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
This life-span development text, known for its clear, authoritative writing style and its solid research orientation, offers a topical organization at the chapter level and a consistent chronological presentation within each chapter. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. Within each developmental chapter, you will find sections on four life stages: Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood. This unique organization enables students to comprehend the processes of transformation that occur within the many areas of human development. New co-author Elizabeth Rider brings to this edition her expertise in cognitive development and gender issues. Additional enhancements include a stronger emphasis on biological and cultural influences, a new four-color design, and an improved pedagogical plan.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5

1) Very Informative   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Hits every aspect from every point of view possible. Gives great psychological background into who we are and what influences maybe made us that way. Very good book even at full price I paid it was very well worth it.

2) Life-Span Human Development   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I found the layout of this book very interesting in that it took a portion of the life-span and brought you from infancy to old age. In this way, the natural progression of life could be viewed for each topic. The alternative would be to start with infancy, then go to childhood, adolescence, etc. With the approach of this book, I found tracking each topie, e.g., "Perception," more interesting.

3) Tired Read   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Very dry read. Complicated and confusing order of addressing topics. Reading for my developmental psych class felt like a chore with this book.

4) Choppy, and incredibly dry   [Rating: 2 out of 5]
I used this book with a human development course at my university, and it was less than adequate for the job. The book is incredibly bland, and while it goes through the life span in order, it seems to jump around from different people's theories too much. Better if all of Piaget's ideas were presented together for a certain topic, etc.. On top of that, I believe that the method of citing the sources, while it works for research papers, seemed out of place in this setting. Numbered footnotes would have worked better. The method of citation used made it seem choppy, as all of a sudden you'd see a last name and a year in the middle of the text. This could be done more effectively, because the current method definitely broke up the text significantly. Hopefully, some of these changes will be implemented in a future edition.